RE: wrong rendering of certain HTML entities

Same problem with Unicode fonts. See the two attached screenshots for Firefox3 (good) and IE7 (bad).

Michael

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org]
>Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 1:25 PM
>To: Michael Schneider
>Cc: public-owl-wg@w3.org
>Subject: Re: wrong rendering of certain HTML entities
>
>Just wondering... what about using UTF-8 everywhere instead of the
>entities? That might work.
>
>I of course know that it is a royal pain to copy paste UTF characters,
>but it would make us independent of possible browser problems
>
>(I usually use Richard Ishida's Uniview to copy/paste unicode
>characters: http://rishida.net/scripts/uniview/)
>
>Just a thought.
>
>Ivan
>
>Michael Schneider wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Before I am going to raise an issue, I would like to see whether this
>is
>> only a problem on my computer.
>>
>> Internet Explorer 7 does not seem to render the HTML 4 entites
>"⟨" and
>> "⟩" correctly. These entites are used for displaying n-tuples in
>> several of our technical documents, at least in
>>
>>   * Direct Semantics
>>   * RDF-Based Semantics
>>   * Syntax (e.g. in section 4 on Datatype Maps)
>>
>> I have added a screenshot (Direct Semantics) to show what gets
>rendered on
>> my machine.
>>
>> Firefox and Opera are working well.
>>
>> For comparison, to see that this isn't a problem with our documents
>only,
>> here is a list of HTML entities in the Web, where the same problem
>occurs:
>>
>>   <http://www.htmlentities.com/html/entities/>
>>
>> I don't know how to best cope with this problem. On the one hand,
>AFAIK
>> these entities are official HTML entities, and so we might simply
>ignore the
>> concrete problem with the Internet Explorer (and "hope" for IE8). On
>the
>> other hand, it is probably not so good if the browser with the largest
>user
>> base displays our documents wrong to some large degree. A simple (but
>> somewhat hacky) solution would be to use the entities "&gt;" and
>"&lt;" as
>> replacements.
>>
>> Michael
>>
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